Re: Hans Camenzind's Book, Designing Analog Chips

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:43:03 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Winfield,


Hans' book is out in print now. I received my copy last
week, and I must say, it's far superior to hold it in your
hand than to read it onscreen. ...


Thanks, using PDF to study a topic like that gets old and so do the
eyes. Books will always have their place. Like AoE which I can't imagine
to ever use in electronic form, it's too much information for that. I
like Hans' style, and that he offers brief histories of inventors. It
really hadn't sunk in for me that Robert Noyce died so young. The last
portion of the story about William Shockley gave me goose pimples.

The claim about there being more MOS transistors than ants, I don't
know. Maybe Hans has never witnessed a termite infestation.

Win, what do you think of their 700 series semi-custom bipolar offering?
It all looks enticing and with the large number of cross-unders a single
metal layout shouldn't be much of a sweat. The only thing I don't like
is the fact that there is only one kind of resistor and it's only
750ohms. That kind of slams the door for most of my designs. There would
have to be a gazillion of those to make low power circuitry feasible but
there aren't.

Regards, Joerg

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